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单词 otary
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otaryn.

Brit. /ˈəʊt(ə)ri/, U.S. /ˈoʊdəri/
Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French otarie.
Etymology: < French otarie (F. Péron 1810, in Ann. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris 15 300) < ancient Greek ὠτάριον little ear < ὠτ- , οὖς ear (see oto- comb. form) + -άριον, extended form of -ιον, diminutive suffix, so named with allusion to the animal's distinctive auricles. Compare scientific Latin Otaria, genus name (F. Péron Voy. de découvertes aux terres australes (1816) II. iv. xxiii. 37/1).
Zoology. Now archaic and rare.
An eared seal (i.e. a sea lion or a fur seal); an otariid.
ΘΚΠ
the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > order Pinnipedia (seal, sea lion, or walrus) > [noun] > family Ostaridae (eared seal)
eared seal?a1808
hair-seal1824
otary1834
otariid1871
1834 H. McMurtrie tr. G. Cuvier Animal Kingdom (abridged ed.) 72 (heading) Otaries [Fr. Otaries], Péron—Seals with external ears.
1880 J. A. Allen Hist. N. Amer. Pinnipeds 225 The largest species of the Otaries..are Hair Seals, while the smallest..are Fur Seals.
1988 P. O'Brian Let. of Marque viii. 240 The crab-seals, the leopard-seals, the otaries!

Derivatives

otarian adj. Obsolete rare = otarine adj.
ΘΚΠ
the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > order Pinnipedia (seal, sea lion, or walrus) > [adjective] > of or relating to Phocidae or seal > of relating to eared seals
otarian1880
1880 J. A. Allen Hist. N. Amer. Pinnipeds 2 The walruses are really little more than thick, clumsy, obese forms of the Otarian type, with the canines enormously developed.
ˈotarine adj. rare of or relating to eared seals.
ΚΠ
1890 Cent. Dict. 4173/1 Otarine, pertaining to or relating to otaries or eared seals.
2002 Vet. Microbiol. 86 131 Phylogenetic analysis showed that this novel virus, tentatively designated Otarine herpesvirus-1 (OtHV-1), grouped with members of the gammaherpesvirus subfamily.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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